[meta-freescale] The correct way to manage system clock time

[Marc Ferland]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:09 AM Mauro Ziliani <mauro at faresoftware.it> wrote:
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> Thanks for the answer.
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> Your idea is a good idea, but it is not applicable to my system because
> it is always offline.
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> My trouble is this.
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> I put localtime to UTC zone. Suppose the time is March 11, 15:23.
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> I set the system clock with the date command
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> date --set '2019-03-10  18:00:00'
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> I expect that the system clock now is March 10, 18:00, even if localtime
> is UTC.
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> But this is not true,because when I restart the system the date/time is
> not updated as I like.
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> This beaviour should be an hardware problem of the board?
>

You need to use hwclock to save the system date/time to the rtc.